NOTE: If you have a standalone license, Toon Boom Harmony will open directly with the Welcome screen.

In the User Name field, enter your username. It is generally provided by the supervisor, system administrator or team lead.

Select the Connect to Database or Work Offline option.

Connect to Database: (Your database must first be set up.) Lets you work on Harmony connected to the database so you can access scenes stored in the central database of the Toon Boom Server; certain options become available in the different menus. However, you will not be able to create new scenes directly from Stage and the available scenes will be the ones that were previously created using the Control Center.

Work Offline: Enabled by default when you start Harmony for the first time. Using this mode lets you create new scenes and work locally on your machine on independent projects as you would with any local software. However, the following limitations apply:

Options exclusive to Harmony Server will not be available in the different menus.

You will not have access to any projects stored in the central database of the Toon Boom Server.

NOTE: If you have a standalone license, Toon Boom Harmony will open directly with the Welcome screen.

In the User Name field, enter your username. It is generally provided by the supervisor, system administrator or team lead.

Select the Connect to Database or Work Offline option.

Connect to Database: (Your database must first be set up.) Lets you work on Harmony connected to the database so you can access scenes stored in the central database of the Toon Boom Server; certain options become available in the different menus. However, you will not be able to create new scenes directly from Stage and the available scenes will be the ones that were previously created using the Control Center.

Work Offline: Enabled by default when you start Harmony for the first time. Using this mode lets you create new scenes and work locally on your machine on independent projects as you would with any local software. However, the following limitations apply:

Options exclusive to Harmony Server will not be available in the different menus.

You will not have access to any projects stored in the central database of the Toon Boom Server.